Parker Law Firm v. The Travelers Indemnity Co., No. 19-2619 (8th Cir. 2021)
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This case arose from an ongoing dispute about whether plaintiffs had a contractual obligation to provide PS Finance with certain payments that plaintiffs received on behalf of a client.
The Eighth Circuit held that the district court properly dismissed the claims against PS Finance based on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine. In this case, plaintiffs brought these claims in Arkansas after the New York court already ruled that whether plaintiffs owe money to PS Finance is a matter subject to arbitration. The court explained that, by proceeding with the claims in the district court, plaintiffs necessarily asked the federal court to review and reject the New York court's ruling that claims concerning amounts owed under the contract must be resolved in arbitration.
Court Description: [Colloton, Author, with Gruender, and Grasz, Circuit Judges] Civil case - Civil procedure. The district court properly applied the Rooker-Feldman doctrine in dismissing the claims against defendant PS Finance.
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